Posts in the UK category

28th January 2015 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel UK

The SilverSpoon Guide to London Date Nights: Top 5 Luxury Hotel Restaurants

I love combining my addiction to nice hotels with my love of fine dining. I can’t think of a better special date then heading to a fabulous hotel bar, enjoying a cocktail and then having a lovely romantic meal in the gorgeous dining room of a fabulous hotel. There some hotels in London that literally… Read more »

14th January 2015 | Everyday London Life Luxury Luxury Travel UK

A Luxurious Stay at the Belgraves Hotel

Mr Silver has a lot of patience really…my addiction to luxury and boutique hotels can take over our lives a bit. When we’re on holiday I’m always keen to check out all the other hotels in the surrounding area. Try a breakfast in a different one…a cocktail in the bar….I’d certainly have a nose around… Read more »

29th December 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Luxury Travel UK

A Festive Staycation at One Aldwych Hotel

  As you know Mr S and I love going on holiday, and it’s lovely to have a little break over the festive period. So on the 23rd of December we excitedly packed our suitcase and jumped in a taxi all ready to go on holiday…about fifteen minutes down the road! Yes, our little festive… Read more »

10th September 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

A Romantic Staycation at Coworth Park

It may come as no surprise to you that I’m lover of luxury; be it fancy restaurants, gorgeous hotels, top quality food or designer clothes…but I strongly believe the biggest luxury in life is having time to spend with the people you love the most. And if you can spend that precious time in a… Read more »

3rd September 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel UK

The Grove Hotel and a Wedding in Watford

I grew up in the small leafy town of Amersham in Buckinghamshire and went to school in the even smaller the neighbouring town of Chesham. While growing up in the country was pretty calm and idyllic, as a teenager I got very bored of the same pubs, the cheesy clubs (Stages, or Winkers if you… Read more »

5th August 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Luxury Travel UK General Top Tens

The SilverSpoon Guide to Staycations: My Top 10 Luxury Hotels in the UK

 ‘Against the Envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England’ I love travelling the world: California beaches, the Australian rainforest, Thai jungles and Italian gastronomy are all fabulous, but there’s nothing I love more than this scepter’d isle. A country that has rolling countryside, pretty pebble beaches and the… Read more »

6th July 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel UK

Luxury at Lainston House and a Wedding in Winchester

Mr S and I were attending our first wedding as a married couple, so naturally we wanted to make a weekend of it. The lovely bride-to-be, Amelia who appeared in my Grain Store review, recommended we stay at Lainston House in Winchester. Ever the organisational freak I booked our stay there five months in advance, along… Read more »

4th June 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK

London in Love

I’ve been lucky enough to visit many cities around the world: Paris, New York, Rome, Sydney, all beautiful cities with unique characters… but as much as I love the food, culture and people of these places my heart will always lie in London.   An earlier post this week described how I spent my formative… Read more »

16th May 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel Restaurants UK

The SilverSpoon Guide to London Date Nights: Top 5 for Total Luxury

When I first started dating Mr Silver, he recognised that I was a lady of discerning tastes, a food lover and a champagne quaffer. He treated me like a princess and took me to top London restaurants, fabulous bars and cool gastropubs… he clearly knew how to impress me… It was only later that I… Read more »

27th April 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

Living it up at The Lowry Hotel, a Manchester weekender

It was a SilverSpoon out of London weekender as Mr Silver and I travelled up to Manchester to celebrate the christening of a good friend’s baby. Mr Silver was The Godfather, a fact he was keen to repeat, thinking it made him sound cool and Mafioso… Anyway, our home for the weekend was The Lowry… Read more »